Swedish police have apparently had Pirate Bay blocked after a recent raid where Pirate Bay servers and equipment were seized. But this is not the first time police have had Pirate Bay shut down.

In a related report by the Inquisitr, Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij was arrested last month at the border of Thailand and Laos. A court in France has just had Pirate Bay shut down within the limits of the country. Meanwhile, Google has been aggressively chasing after the file sharing site by blocking Pirate Bay Android apps intended to make sharing torrents much easier.

Citing copyright violations, police had Pirate Bay blocked early Tuesday morning after they raided a server room in Sweden. The police have confirmed that they raided a data center in Nacka which is built into a mountain, which suggest the raid place at Portlane. Police would not confirm any arrests but it’s believed at least one man at the location has been detained.

In addition to the main domain address, many websites on the Pirate Bay proxy server list were also down as of Tuesday evening EST, and Pirate Bay’s forum Suprbay.org was also down, in addition to Bayimg.com and Pastbay.net.

“There were a number of police officers and digital forensics experts there. This took place during the morning and continued until this afternoon. Several servers and computers were seized, but I cannot say exactly how many,” Swedish prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad told Radio Sweden.

Having Pirate Bay blocked apparently was not their only objective. Although it is uncertain whether they were raided, TorrentFreak reports a number of other Torrent websites like EZTV, Zoink, Torrage, and more also went down in the same time frame. Paul Pintér, police national coordinator for IP enforcement, did confirm there was a “crackdown” occurring in relation to torrent websites.

“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law,” said Pinter.

Even though the main website remains blocked as of this publishing, already several of the Pirate Bay proxy servers have popped back up. Pirate Bay was first raided back in 2006 and ever since the website has been running off of multiple cloud hosting providers located within diverse countries. This means it’s very difficult for government authorities to have Pirate Bay shut down entirely unless it involves a multinational effort that lops off all heads of the hydra at once. Still, the fact that some of the Pirate Bay proxy servers have been unreachable indicates the raid may have reached further than merely one server room location.